Portland Sights & Lunch with cooldrum

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Beautiful photos Guth and sounds like a fun day! Crossing that St. John's bridge is cool, both on top and by boat underneath!

The fires and smoke have been disheartening. A few weeks back I came across a fire near Maupin, OR and the city was darkened by forest fire smoke and I was thinking "so glad I don't live in an area where this happens". Fast forward a few weeks and I found out that I do...

This is a cloudless day about 2 weeks ago, 4 miles south of where I live in Gresham; it was the first sign of smoke:


Be evening it was starting to invade the neighborhood:


Next morning, it was there to stay for a week and that tree ridge line disappeared from view because of smoke.


It cleared last Thursday with heavy rain and light breeze...but I just now had to close the house up again as it started to smell like a campfire...again. The smoke is moving back in.


We were 5 miles from "must evacuate" line, last week. Hoping that fire keeps its distance as more rains may arrive by Wednesday.